Flea talks about Red Hot Chili Peppers’ next album

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October 21, 2014 11:35 pm

Things have changed since Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded their last album, 2011’s I’m With You. “We had a new guitar player [Josh Klinghoffer] and it was a real feeling-out process with each other,” Flea tells Rolling Stone. “We didn’t want to play gigs with him until we’d made a new record. This time, it feels a lot better than the last one.”

The bassist says they’ve been able to “establish a new language” within the band, and “We’ve been writing and rehearsing, rolling up our sleeves, getting in the studio and doing it. We’re nearly finished writing. We’ll go in the studio sometime in the next couple of months.”

Flea estimates the group has written more than 30 songs—”We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot”—and as for the direction of the new tunes, he says, “It’s cool. It’s super danceable, funky s*** and some real introspective, pretty stuff. It feels good, man, and it’s fun to play it.”

Although he won’t offer a timeline for the album, Flea says, “I would hope that in a year from now, we have a record out and we’re on a world tour.”